Coursewithin the PDEng programme in Civil Engineering

The two years lasting PDEng programme in Civil Engineering consists of three blocks: a block professional development, a block with in-depth and broadening courses and the technological design project.

Professional Development

The course in Professional Effectiveness is compulsory, and others are elective (in consultation with your supervisors). The total study load of the professional development courses is 6-10 EC.

Professional Development courses

Electives during the Professional Development part:

Technical Writing

Perfecting your Publication

Time management

Presenting

Creative Thinking Techniques

Projectmanagement

Communicate Effectively

Influence Effectively

Ethics

Analytic Storytelling

Personal Branding

From Idea to Patent to Business

Dutch (compulsory for foreign students)

In-Depth and broadening courses

The education block carries a total study load of at least 45 EC and comprises a compulsory block and an elective block.

Compulsory courses (depending on your specialisation domain)

The compulsory block includes four compulsory courses, i.e. Systems Engineering, Design Methodology and one of the two courses, depending on the domain you follow within the programme (Water Engineering, Transport Engineering or Construction Management):

Water Engineering domain

Transport Engineering domain

Elective courses

For the elective block, together with the direct supervisors you can select courses which are of interest for the technological design project. Elective courses can either be master courses or post-master courses (master courses need to be upgraded to post-master courses).

Students who attended the courses mentioned above during their MSc programme had included, can replace these courses by other civil engineering courses of 5-7.5 EC. These students have to do two PDEng-specific assignments, linked to the two subjects of their choice listed above.

What I like the most about the programme is the tailor made character of it. There is a lot of freedom in choices for all parties.Niels Vossebeld

The PDEng is open for a wide range of technical educated Master graduates. Are you interested in a PDEng programme at the Univeristy of Twente? Do you want to know if there are vacancies? Have a look at our vacancies website.